• Blog - Crafts

    Beyond the list

    sept cardsIf you joined me for T stands for Tuesday, you know that I had a list long enough to choke a horse. I usually do but I always try to allow for a little “playtime” each day as well.  I can’t say that it happens all the time but I am ever grateful when it does.

    We have some occasions this month that are in need of greeting cards so I’ve been hard at work creating them for the events.

    20130902_3343In addition, I’ve been making a bit of miniature terrain as well. While Mr. G was purging the office, I spied a few pieces that looked like they would work really well as gaming terrain.

    These first three were….CD spindles. Did you guess right?

    I thought they’d make good bunker or storage pieces.

    20130901_3331Next came some molded Styrofoam packing pieces from a very ancient…in the computer world…CDROM drive. I looked at it an saw another bunker, nearly the same design as one you’d pay  upwards of $50 for. Crazy, right? So I cut it in half and glued it together….now I have two!

    20130902_3342After adding some additional foam pieces and painting the whole works with a mix of gesso and black craft paint, I spray painted everything with my splatter technique.

    I layer the colors of spray paint without letting it dry between coats.

    I use a light hand with the color. It gives a rich depth of color…almost an airbrush effect.

    I used 5 colors of spray paint on these pieces.20130902_3339 They were obtained from the recycle center and my folks place.

    I know this is not my usual type of art but sometimes I get a very different crafty bent. This happens to be one of those weeks.

    Hope I didn’t scare you off. 🙂

  • Blog - Crafts

    Operation Write Home

    At craft club, I learned about an organization called Operation Write Home that provides greeting cards to military personnel for them to send home to loved ones.  They are able to provide these by donations from crafters. sketch 187

    What a cool idea!! I’m so in!!

    While browsing the site I saw that they often do challenges in the form of a sketch for cards. You can take the sketch and make any kind of card you so desire.

    The latest was sketch#187.  This is my interpretation.

    thoughts of youthanks

     

    I don’t usually work that way when it comes to cards, so this was quite a challenge for me.

    I’m thinking I’ll try and work through a few more of the sketches from previous challenges to see if I can work on my direction following. 🙂

    In the mean time, I’ll still be creating cards in my own way.

    Going with my instinct…letting it happen naturally.

    Sometimes I love the end result…sometimes not.

    The point is to keep on being creative every day.

     

    And by the way….

    thanks for stopping by.

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    Remember to play

    remember to play

    As summer is winding down, schedules start to fill. Meetings, homework, activities and appointments take up all the free time we’ve been accustomed to for the past 3 months.

    This thought came to me as I was working on this page…